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Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published Jun 27, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-5728

CVE-2016-5728

Description

Race condition in the vop_ioctl function in drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c in the MIC VOP driver in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by changing a certain header, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

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Affected products

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  • Debian/linux
    cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Linux/Kernel2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=4.6
    • (no CPE)range: <4.6.1

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